December 24, 2011, Saturday

Even though he filed for bankruptcy protection, Bernhard H. Goetz is still liable for a $43 million jury award against him for paralyzing a young man 12 years ago, a Federal judge ruled yesterday. During a civil trial in April, a Bronx jury...

On the plus side are a $320 wardrobe, some electronic equipment, a pet chinchilla and guinea pig valued together at $130, and about $500 in cash. In all, about $17,000 in assets. On the debit side: a $1 million liability for an unfulfilled...

Bernhard H. Goetz moved to protect his meager assets yesterday, filing for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. He is facing a $43 million judgment after a Bronx civil court's decision last week to hold him liable...

Enraged by last week's jury award of $43 million against him and terrified that he might lose all his possessions, down to the pet guinea pig and chinchilla he considers his closest companions, Bernhard H. Goetz will file for bankruptcy today,...

April 29, 1996, Monday

THE headlines last week after Bernhard Goetz was found liable in the 1984 subway shooting of a Bronx teen-ager extracted a straightforward meaning from the case: Mr. Goetz, the world was told, had been ordered by a Civil Court jury to pay Darrell...

April 28, 1996, Sunday

To the Editor: Re "The Goetz Verdict" (editorial, April 24): Perhaps you have forgotten what it was like to use the New York City subways in the mid-1980's. I haven't, nor have my friends. Riding the subway -- with its filth and crime --...